A non-governmental organisation (NGO), Save Our Souls Initiative for Adolescent Ladies, within the spirit of Christmas, has fed many avenue kids and homeless folks in some components of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
On Saturday, members and volunteers of the NGO, amid music and enjoyable, celebrated with the underprivileged by their feeding programme themed ‘Feed-a-Thon’.
The 2 areas within the metropolis the NGO visited have been Mokola Roundabout and Sabo, the place they provided jollof rice, meat, and smooth drinks to the beneficiaries.
The founding father of the NGO, who can also be a social employee and the creator of ‘Yemisi’s Diary’, Yemisi Soyinka, famous that although the programme just isn’t an annual occasion, each December they go to orphanage properties to rejoice with motherless kids.
Nevertheless, she added that this yr, they determined to succeed in out to avenue kids and homeless folks.
“Reaching out to the much less privileged, in money or variety, is our core accountability. We frequently perform our sensitization programmes in secondary faculties and orphanage properties,” she mentioned.
Soyinka confused that through the Christmas interval, many individuals discover it troublesome to afford three-square meals, to not point out the much less privileged.
“The speed of starvation is alarming, and the financial downturn is a significant component. These avenue kids can not afford to go see Father Christmas, so we thought we might organise an occasion to place a smile on their faces,” she added.
Joshua Akinleyin, who was the Christmas on the occasion, said that he was glad to play the function and that it was a factor of pleasure to see the kids laughing and dancing.
Wishing the kids a merry Christmas, he added, “Father Christmas will all the time love you.”
Deborah Ayo Umar, a volunteer of the NGO, mentioned that the road could make kings and queens and that individuals, organisations, and the federal government have to organise programmes to sensitise kids on the streets.
Umar, whereas appreciating the NGO for internet hosting the occasion, mentioned that the grins and laughter on the faces of the kids made her coronary heart leap with pleasure.
“A lot of the kids nonetheless have rather a lot to be taught, and a few of them are prepared to be taught, however provided that they discover the appropriate individual to assist, train, and information them in direction of the appropriate half,” she added.
Titus Olowogunle, one other volunteer, famous that the occasion was apt, including that the wrestle of avenue kids and the homeless of their quest for survival must be taken critically by the federal government and well-meaning folks in society.
“One may also help them see the attitudes, decisions, actions, and behaviours which can be retaining them from looking for their goals. Then provide them coaching and incentives for them to take cost of their well-being,” Olowogunle mentioned.
Soyinka, the founding father of the NGO, whereas appreciating their volunteers and sponsors—Pop Joe Building, Thought Seek the advice of, Hattires, Devoo Seafood, ID Keji Enterprises, and Taybod Intercontinental—said that the less-privileged must be a part of folks’s budgets this festive interval.
She urged the federal government to additionally attain out to these in want and embrace them of their celebration funds.
“They want us to smile. They want us to revive their hopes. They should rejoice Christmas too,” Soyinka added.
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